Category:bloghdad.com

Tuesday on NPR, I heard an excerpt of British MP Malcolm Bruce's comments in the marathon Iraq debate in the House of Commons. What I heard

That leaves us with the United Kingdom divided, Europe divided, NATO divided and the UN divided. Many of us share a deep anxietyóand it grieves me to say soóthat those divisions may be exactly the outcome that the Bush Administration wanted.

wasn't as widely reported as his closing comment,

...if the United States is going to provide leadership for the world, the United States needs to provide a world leader.

, and I couldn't yet find a transcript online. So I Googled Mr Malcolm Bruce, found his official page, and emailed a request for a complete transcript of his remarks. Here they are.

They came this morning via email, excerpted from the official proceedings, put into Word, and accompanied by a note from Mr Bruce himself. If you can show me one US representative who even reads, much less answers, his own email, I'll post a giant picture of him or her here.

Forget 1991, it feels like 1999 around here. That was the last time I made an impulse buy. of a URL.

If anyone has a good idea for what to do with Bloghdad.com, let me know. The clock is ticking.

Some things I'm not considering:

starting a warblog. The world needs another warblog like the portal business needed Go.com (speaking of 1999...)

giving it to Slate's William Saletan, although he gets a shoutout for going wide with the term. (an excerpt from the latest "moment of truth": "But forgive me if in its first hours this doesn't look like a war of self-defense.")

getting into either a a WIPO dispute or a Talking Points Memo/Washington Post-style brawl with Microsoft.

Since 2001 here at greg.org, I've been blogging about the creative processâ€”my own and those of people who interest me. That mostly involves filmmaking, art, writing, research, and the making thereof.